Better Off Dead?

BBC Two HD

11:05 PM to 12:05 AM

Tuesday 1 April

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Actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr explores the repercussions of assisted suicide and explains why she believes it shouldn't be legalised in the UK. She travels to Canada where it is legal to offer medically assisted death to the terminally ill and the disabled, Liz argues that in a world where disabled people are often told they're 'better off dead' should more power be given to ending that group of people's lives? Back in the UK, she meets influential voices calling for a change in the law such as Labour peer Lord Falconer and Sunday Times columnist Melanie Reid and fellow campaigners fighting to retain the status quo, including Baroness Jane Campbell